[coldtea]

>1 - If memory management is a serious problem for the software you work on, I've never found the boost library lacking. This seems like the main selling point for RUST.

No, the main selling point is memory management with guarantees for safety but full performance. You don't get that just with boost, it's mostly a GC.

>2 - I'm not a fan of the implicitness and I personally don't use 'auto' b/c it makes scanning code harder. I guess this is more of a personal preference.

Type inference removes redundant information.

>4 - the Rust switch statement don't fall through... This one was truly mind blowing. The one useful feature of switch statement got ripped it out!

Huh? The fall-through has been known to be a bug hazard and bad style for ages. And for what, to save a few lines with a not that clever trick? The only useful abuse of the Switch was Duff's device, and that's stretching it already.